A Year's Worth of Contributions to The Myrtle

During the thirty or more years she edited the Universalist Sunday-School magazine The Myrtle,
Elizabeth M. Bruce wrote literally hundreds of stories and poems. In her first years as editor, she sometimes wrote serials
or several pieces per issue; in her later years, she usually limited herself to
one short poem and one short story per issue. Many of her creations were occasioned by the
magazine's cost-cutting practice of using stock illustrations -- which meant Bruce needed to
supply text to match the pictures. The easiest way was apparently
to write those pieces herself, which she did.

In keeping with tradition, Bruce's contributions during her editorship appeared under
her initials, E. M. B. The list below shows her output for one year, 1884: 51 poems and 47 short stories or articles.

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